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Ireland: GPs paid more for abortion than pregnancy care

Ireland GPs paid more for abortion than pregnancy care

A GP in Wexford, Ireland has said it is an “absolute scandal” that GPs are paid almost double for administering an abortion compared to management of pregnancy.

Dr Grainne Pinaqui of The Faythe Medical Practice, told Independent.ie that GPs are only paid €250 for managing pregnancies compared to €450 for the administration of abortion.

She said: “If I see an [ante]-natal patient who is happy to continue with her pregnancy there can be about seven visits involved, and if there are complications, there will be more. For a pregnancy like that we get paid €250”. 

“We have to check they’re OK so it’s maintaining someone and supporting her through a pregnancy and with a baby with colic which can be very emotional, and even through pregnancy loss”.

However, €450 is paid for three visits for the administration of abortion. “Pregnancy termination is far more highly paid than antenatal care”, she said.

Right To Life UK spokesperson, Catherine Robinson, said: “Dr Pinaqui is right to draw attention to this scandal. It is indeed desperately sad that doctors are being given a financial incentive to end life as opposed to maintaining it”.

Dear reader,

You may be surprised to learn that our 24-week abortion time limit is out of line with the majority of European Union countries, where the most common time limit for abortion on demand or on broad social grounds is 12 weeks gestation.

The latest guidance from the British Association of Perinatal Medicine enables doctors to intervene to save premature babies from 22 weeks. The latest research indicates that a significant number of babies born at 22 weeks gestation can survive outside the womb, and this number increases with proactive perinatal care.

This leaves a real contradiction in British law. In one room of a hospital, doctors could be working to save a baby born alive at 23 weeks whilst, in another room of that same hospital, a doctor could perform an abortion that would end the life of a baby at the same age.

The majority of the British population support reducing the time limit. Polling has shown that 70% of British women favour a reduction in the time limit from 24 weeks to 20 weeks or below.

Please click the button below to sign the petition to the Prime Minister, asking him to do everything in his power to reduce the abortion time limit.

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